Sinopsis
"[A] fast and precise thriller".—Kirkus
"Short but powerful, Cook takes the reader on an action-packed, tension-filled ride....A page-turner."—BookMooch
"A true dark classic of Australian literature."—J. M. Coetzee on Wake in Fright
"A kind of outback Lord of the Flies."—Crime Time UK on Wake in Fright
From the author of Wake In Fright comes this chilling short novel that's part Wolf Creek and part Duel.
A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide for work decides to take a short detour into the desert. He turns his hatchback on to a notoriously dangerous track that bisects uninhabited stone-covered flats. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours.
He's not far along the road when a distraught young woman stumbles from the scrub and flags him down. A journalist from Sydney, she has just escaped the clutches of an inexplicable, terrifying creature.
Now this desert-dwelling creature has her jeep. Her axe. And her scent . . .
Fear Is the Rider is a nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its centre. Previously unpublished, the manuscript of this 1980s novella was recently discovered among Kenneth Cook's papers.
Wake In Fright was made into a film in 1971, arguably the greatest film ever made in Australia. Lost for many years, the restored film was screened in 2009 at New York's Film Forum and at Cannes, winning rave reviews in the New Yorker and elsewhere. Nick Cave called it "the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence."
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Kenneth Cook’s classic novel Wake in Fright was published in 1961 and later made into an acclaimed film. Cook wrote more than twenty books in a variety of genres, and was well known in film circles as a scriptwriter and independent film-maker. He died in 1987, aged fifty-seven. Fear Is the Rider is a previously unpublished manuscript from the early 1980s that was recently rediscovered among his papers.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. It was quite silent in the scrub. No breeze stirred the leaves and no bird moved, except for the kite hawks wheeling silently, eternally, high in the hot air.She smelt her attacker before she saw him.A heavy stench hit her with such force that she started with shock. It was a smell shed never encountered before. Not man, not animal, something like carrion, but alive. It seemed to envelop and suffocate her, then became tangible as two arms wrapped around her body and began tearing at her clothing.A young man driving from Sydney to Adelaide for work decides to take a short detour into the desert. He turns his hatchback on to a notoriously dangerous track that bisects uninhabited stone-covered flats. Out there, under the baking sun, people can die within hours.Hes not far along the road when a distraught young woman stumbles from the scrub and flags him down. A journalist from Sydney, she has just escaped the clutches of an inexplicable, terrifying creature.Now this desert-dwelling creature has her jeep. Her axe. And her scentFrom the author of the classic novel Wake In Fright comes a chillingly brilliant short novel thats part Wolf Creek and part Duel. Fear Is the Rider is a nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its centre.Wake In Fright was made into an internationally acclaimed film. Fear Is the Rider is a previously unpublished manuscript from the 1980s that was recently rediscovered among Kenneth Cooks papers. A nail-biting chase into the outback, towards the devil lurking at its center. Adrenaline-fuelled reading. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781925240856
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